Signy Sheldon
Biographic Data
| ID | 5019765 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Signy Sheldon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Signy |
| FAMILY NAME | Sheldon |
| SIGNATURE | SHELDON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1661-9866 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A transient effect of episodic simulation in repeated decision-making
The impact of retrieval goals on memory for complex events in younger and older adults
Emotional events induce retrograde memory impairments on conceptually-related neutral events
Emotional events are known to be prioritized during episodic encoding, leading to more detailed recollections compared to neutral events. Encoding an emotional event can influence the mnemonic fate of preceding or subsequent neutral events. Studies examining the impact of emotion on memory for neighboring neutral events have produced inconsistent results, which could be due to differences in the conceptual association between emotional and neutra…
Targeting schema change in social anxiety via autobiographical memory reconstruction
Negative self-schemas are fundamental to social anxiety disorder and contribute to its persistence, thus understanding how to change schemas is of critical importance. Memory-based interventions and associated theories propose that reconstructing autobiographical memories tethered to schemas with conceptual details that challenge the associated expectations will lead to schema change. Here, we test this proposal in a between-subjects behavioural …
Lifetime familiarity cue effects for autobiographical memory
Neurocognitive Model of Schema-Congruent and -Incongruent Learning in Clinical Disorders
Negative schemas lie at the core of many common and debilitating mental disorders. Thus, intervention scientists and clinicians have long recognized the importance of designing effective interventions that target schema change. Here, we suggest that the optimal development and administration of such interventions can benefit from a framework outlining how schema change occurs in the brain. Guided by basic neuroscientific findings, we provide a me…
From memory to motivation
Research has documented a strong link between constructing episodic simulations -vivid imaginations of specific events-and empathy. To date, most studies have used episodic simulations of helping someone to facilitate affective empathy and promote helping intentions, but have not studied how episodic simulations of another's distressing situation affect empathy. Moreover, affective empathy encompasses both personal distress (i.e., an egocentric e…
The role of episodic memory in imagining autobiographical events
Episodic memory plays a common role in constructing mental representations of past and imagined autobiographical events. Research has suggested that certain factors will affect how episodic memory is used during mental construction, such as the expectancy that an event will occur and the familiarity with an event's context. The aim of the current study was to understand how these factors affect episodic memory engagement and subjective experience…
Reward at encoding but not retrieval modulates memory for detailed events
Schema-related eye movements support episodic simulation
Conceptual similarity alters the impact of context shifts on temporal memory
Past work has shown that changes in encoding contexts (context shifts) act as boundaries across encountered items and can impair temporal memory. We address two questions about this effect: whether conceptual similarity among contexts creating a boundary can alleviate temporal memory impairments and if this effect holds for different forms of contexts (spatial vs. categorical). In a between-subjects design, participants studied the order of seque…
What are your thoughts? Exploring age-related changes in episodic and semantic autobiographical content on an open-ended retrieval task
Older adults display impairments in accessing episodic, but not semantic details, when specifically requested to construct autobiographical events. How aging affects access to autobiographical information under conditions of low retrieval constraint remains unclear. We examined the production of episodic and “non-episodic” details in young (n = 25) and older (n = 24) adults on a novel autobiographical narrative task free from constraints on the t…
The impact of encoding scenarios on different forms of temporal order memory
The effects of emotional valence and perceived life stress on recalling personal experiences and envisioning future events
Although it is understood that engaging in mental time travel to remember the past and imagine the future relies on similar cognitive processes, there are important differences. Notably, there is evidence that emotional valence differently affects how past and future events are accessed. Here, we explored the differential effect of emotional valence on past and future event generation in the context of personal stress. This is based on findings t…
The link between detail generation and eye movements when encoding and retrieving complex images
Examining eye movement patterns when encoding and retrieving visually complex memories is useful to understand the link between visuo-perceptual processes and how associated details are represented within these memories. Here, we used images of real-world scenes (e.g., a couple grocery shopping) to examine how encoding and retrieval eye movements are linked to the details used to describe complex images during these two phases of memory. Given th…
Emotional cue effects on accessing and elaborating upon autobiographical memories
Altering access to autobiographical episodes with prior semantic knowledge
Testing the impact of emotional mood and cue characteristics on detailed autobiographical memory retrieval
Autobiographical memory retrieval is impacted by emotion, whether from an individual's mood state or a retrieval cue. Here, we addressed two questions concerning how emotion from these two sources affects the remembering of autobiographical experiences. The first question concerns whether emotional mood and retrieval cues both reliably impact the details and content of a recalled autobiographical memory. The second question concerns to what exten…
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Testing the impact of emotional mood and cue characteristics on detailed autobiographical memory retrieval
Autobiographical memory retrieval is impacted by emotion, whether from an individual's mood state or a retrieval cue. Here, we addressed two questions concerning how emotion from these two sources affects the remembering of autobiographical experiences. The first question concerns whether emotional mood and retrieval cues both reliably impact the details and content of a recalled autobiographical memory. The second question concerns to what exten…
The link between detail generation and eye movements when encoding and retrieving complex images
Examining eye movement patterns when encoding and retrieving visually complex memories is useful to understand the link between visuo-perceptual processes and how associated details are represented within these memories. Here, we used images of real-world scenes (e.g., a couple grocery shopping) to examine how encoding and retrieval eye movements are linked to the details used to describe complex images during these two phases of memory. Given th…
Emotional cue effects on accessing and elaborating upon autobiographical memories
Altering access to autobiographical episodes with prior semantic knowledge
Conceptual similarity alters the impact of context shifts on temporal memory
Past work has shown that changes in encoding contexts (context shifts) act as boundaries across encountered items and can impair temporal memory. We address two questions about this effect: whether conceptual similarity among contexts creating a boundary can alleviate temporal memory impairments and if this effect holds for different forms of contexts (spatial vs. categorical). In a between-subjects design, participants studied the order of seque…
What are your thoughts? Exploring age-related changes in episodic and semantic autobiographical content on an open-ended retrieval task
Older adults display impairments in accessing episodic, but not semantic details, when specifically requested to construct autobiographical events. How aging affects access to autobiographical information under conditions of low retrieval constraint remains unclear. We examined the production of episodic and “non-episodic” details in young (n = 25) and older (n = 24) adults on a novel autobiographical narrative task free from constraints on the t…
The impact of encoding scenarios on different forms of temporal order memory
The effects of emotional valence and perceived life stress on recalling personal experiences and envisioning future events
Although it is understood that engaging in mental time travel to remember the past and imagine the future relies on similar cognitive processes, there are important differences. Notably, there is evidence that emotional valence differently affects how past and future events are accessed. Here, we explored the differential effect of emotional valence on past and future event generation in the context of personal stress. This is based on findings t…
The role of episodic memory in imagining autobiographical events
Episodic memory plays a common role in constructing mental representations of past and imagined autobiographical events. Research has suggested that certain factors will affect how episodic memory is used during mental construction, such as the expectancy that an event will occur and the familiarity with an event's context. The aim of the current study was to understand how these factors affect episodic memory engagement and subjective experience…
Reward at encoding but not retrieval modulates memory for detailed events
Schema-related eye movements support episodic simulation
Neurocognitive Model of Schema-Congruent and -Incongruent Learning in Clinical Disorders
Negative schemas lie at the core of many common and debilitating mental disorders. Thus, intervention scientists and clinicians have long recognized the importance of designing effective interventions that target schema change. Here, we suggest that the optimal development and administration of such interventions can benefit from a framework outlining how schema change occurs in the brain. Guided by basic neuroscientific findings, we provide a me…
From memory to motivation
Research has documented a strong link between constructing episodic simulations -vivid imaginations of specific events-and empathy. To date, most studies have used episodic simulations of helping someone to facilitate affective empathy and promote helping intentions, but have not studied how episodic simulations of another's distressing situation affect empathy. Moreover, affective empathy encompasses both personal distress (i.e., an egocentric e…
Lifetime familiarity cue effects for autobiographical memory
The impact of retrieval goals on memory for complex events in younger and older adults
Emotional events induce retrograde memory impairments on conceptually-related neutral events
Emotional events are known to be prioritized during episodic encoding, leading to more detailed recollections compared to neutral events. Encoding an emotional event can influence the mnemonic fate of preceding or subsequent neutral events. Studies examining the impact of emotion on memory for neighboring neutral events have produced inconsistent results, which could be due to differences in the conceptual association between emotional and neutra…
Targeting schema change in social anxiety via autobiographical memory reconstruction
Negative self-schemas are fundamental to social anxiety disorder and contribute to its persistence, thus understanding how to change schemas is of critical importance. Memory-based interventions and associated theories propose that reconstructing autobiographical memories tethered to schemas with conceptual details that challenge the associated expectations will lead to schema change. Here, we test this proposal in a between-subjects behavioural …
A transient effect of episodic simulation in repeated decision-making
Cognitive psychology (15 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Cognition (14 works) · Memory Processes and Influences (12 works) · Episodic memory (11 works) · Recall (11 works) · Memory and Neural Mechanisms (10 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Identity, Memory, and Therapy (9 works) · Autobiographical memory (8 works)